Specialty Coffee Roasters in Mumbai: A Market Map
ICB lists 12 specialty roasters headquartered in Mumbai, with 144 active coffees as of October 2026. Some pour from Bandra bungalows; others roast in Goregaon industrial units and sell only online. This map sorts them by neighbourhood, sourcing and price.
As of October 2026, ICB lists 12 specialty coffee roasters headquartered in Mumbai, with 144 active coffees between them. They cluster in four areas: Bandra and Mahim, the Lower Parel–Worli mill district, South Mumbai, and a production belt running from Andheri to Malad. Four brands based elsewhere also run Mumbai roasteries or cafes.
Guides to Mumbai's specialty coffee usually work cafe by cafe. Sprudge's city guide and Barista Magazine's feature both do, and most of the places they name are in Bandra or South Mumbai. ICB's directory data gives a different picture. About half of the city's listed roasters show no cafe in ICB's location records and roast from industrial estates in the northern suburbs. Their catalogs split into a lower-priced production tier and a premium origin tier. Nine of the twelve also buy from the same Karnataka district.
This article maps Mumbai's specialty roasters by where the roasting happens, what goes into the roaster and what the bags cost. It is a map, not a ranking. Every count comes from ICB's maintained roaster directory, which readers can filter directly.
What counts as a specialty coffee roaster in Mumbai
The Specialty Coffee Association defines specialty coffee as coffee scoring 80 points or more on its 100-point cupping scale, with few defects and a traceable origin. ICB lists roasters that sell specialty-positioned coffee; it does not grade each bag. For a longer treatment of the term, see what specialty coffee means in India.
For this map, a Mumbai roaster is an active ICB-listed roaster headquartered in the city and roasting there. On that definition, Mumbai has 12 roasters out of 117 active roasters in ICB's directory, tied with New Delhi and behind Bengaluru's 21. Its 144 active coffees are about 9% of the 1,596 ICB tracks nationally. How Mumbai compares with other Indian cities covers the city-against-city view; this piece goes one level down.
Brands headquartered elsewhere that operate in Mumbai (Blue Tokai from Gurugram, Araku and Nandan from Bengaluru, Grey Soul from Pune) are placed on the map but not counted. KC Roasters by Koinonia, which appears in some older Mumbai guides, is not currently an active ICB listing.
Roasting in Mumbai is not growing in Mumbai. No coffee is farmed in or near the city. Every Indian bean in these catalogs comes from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha or the Northeast as green coffee. A "Mumbai roaster" is one where the roasting happens in Mumbai.
Mumbai's specialty coffee map, by neighbourhood
ICB's location records show two kinds of Mumbai roaster. Cafe-fronted roasters (Subko, Boojee, Bombay Island, Dope, and Kali through its NoBo Cafe) roast and pour. Production roasters (Drum, Roastudio, Anecdote, Tulum, and Dancing Goat's Mahim unit) roast from residential or industrial premises and sell mainly online. Caffinary and Bean By Nation publish no walk-in address.
Bandra, Khar and Mahim
Bandra West has the densest concentration of roaster-run counters in ICB's Mumbai data. Subko Specialty Coffee Roasters, founded in 2020, roasts and pours at Mary Lodge on Chapel Road, its flagship. Boojee Cafe operates a cafe-roastery off Perry Cross Road and two further cafes on 16th Road and near Mount Mary. Dope Coffee Roasters has a cafe on Carter Road in Khar West. One neighbourhood south, Dancing Goat Coffee roasts on Mogul Lane in Mahim.
Outside brands add to the cluster: Grey Soul runs a Bandra West cafe, and Nandan Coffee pours inside two Bandra retail spaces.
Lower Parel, Worli and Byculla: the mill district
Converted textile-mill compounds give roasters industrial floor space close to the city centre. Dope Coffee Roasters' roastery and headquarters sit in Mathuradas Mill Compound, Lower Parel. Blue Tokai, headquartered in Gurugram, runs its Mumbai roastery on Shakti Mills Lane. Boojee has an espresso bar in Worli, Subko a second space (The Craftery) in Byculla East, and Nandan a counter in Mahalaxmi.
South Mumbai: Fort, Kala Ghoda and Colaba
South Mumbai has cafes but no roasting in ICB's records. Boojee's Fort cafe is in Kala Ghoda. Subko's The Cacao Mill is in Colaba, where Araku also runs a cafe. Nandan's experience centre is in Fort. Beans served here are roasted further north.
Andheri to Malad: the production belt
Most of Mumbai's production-only roasting sits along the western suburbs between Vile Parle and Malad. Anecdote Roasters works from Vile Parle East and Tulum Coffee from the Juhu–Versova Link Road. Kali roasts in Mindspace, Malad West, and pours at NoBo Cafe in Andheri West, and Dope has a second cafe in Versova. Drum Coffee Roasters works from Oshiwara Industrial Centre in Goregaon West, Roastudio from Goregaon East near the JVLR, and Bombay Island's original roastery was in Malad.
These units rarely appear on cafe lists because there is little to visit. Their catalogs are not small, though: Drum (17 coffees), Kali (11) and Roastudio (11) together list more coffees than Subko, Boojee and Bombay Island combined. By catalog size, much of Mumbai's roasting happens in the suburbs; the cafes are the part people see.
Vikhroli and BKC
On the eastern side, Bombay Island Coffee Company (founded 2018) runs its flagship cafe and roastery at Godrej's The Trees in Vikhroli East, with a second cafe at Jio World Drive in BKC. Community threads often name Sion and Matunga as coffee neighbourhoods; that reputation belongs to South Indian filter coffee, and ICB lists no specialty roaster there.
What Mumbai's roasters are sourcing
Region data is recorded for 91 of the 144 Mumbai coffees, and estate data for 67. The 53 coffees with no region listed (37%) suggest origin labelling is still uneven among the city's roasters. Within that coverage, Karnataka leads by a wide margin.
Chikmagalur appears in 18 coffees from 9 of the 12 Mumbai roasters. Add Baba Budangiri (7 coffees, 4 roasters) and Coorg (7 coffees, 3 roasters), and Karnataka accounts for 34 of the region-tagged coffees. Two estates recur across roasters. Ratnagiri Estate appears in 9 coffees from five Mumbai roasters (Bean By Nation, Boojee, Caffinary, Dancing Goat and Subko), and Baarbara Estate in 7 coffees from five (Bean By Nation, Boojee, Caffinary, Dancing Goat and Tulum). A Mumbai buyer can taste the same estate through several local roasters, the comparison set out in the roaster effect. With five local roasters buying from the same two estates, origin is not what separates most Mumbai roasters from each other; roast profile, process and price are.
Several roasters also buy from origins the others do not:
- Koraput, Odisha: 11 coffees, all from Caffinary and Kali. It is the second-largest origin in Mumbai's catalog, held by two roasters. See Koraput coffees on ICB.
- Subko keeps to the subcontinent: Kerehaklu and Lekali estates in Karnataka, Paderu in Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, and a Nepal lot, plus excelsa.
- In the Tamil Nadu hills, Kali buys from the Shevaroy Hills, Tulum from the Palani Hills, Dope from the Nilgiris.
- Nearly all the international origins come from Bean By Nation, whose 38 coffees include lots from Colombia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Tanzania.
Single-origin coffees make up 88 of the 144 (61%), above the roughly 47% single-origin share across ICB's national catalog. Arabica accounts for 104 coffees. Robusta, arabica-robusta blends and chicory blends are present but sit mostly with Drum, Roastudio and Dope.
Price, roast and brew style across the city
Priced per 250 g on the cheapest pack of each coffee, Mumbai's median is Rs 660, below ICB's national median of Rs 714. Roaster medians vary widely:
| Roaster | Median Rs / 250 g | Coffees |
|---|---|---|
| Drum Coffee Roasters | 438 | 17 |
| Roastudio | 488 | 11 |
| Dancing Goat Coffee | 500 | 8 |
| Bombay Island Coffee Company | 540 | 9 |
| Tulum Coffee | 606 | 6 |
| Dope Coffee Roasters | 635 | 13 |
| Kali | 660 | 11 |
| Anecdote Roasters | 709 | 2 |
| Caffinary | 770 | 14 |
| Boojee Cafe | 825 | 7 |
| Bean By Nation | 978 | 38 |
| Subko Specialty Coffee Roasters | 1,095 | 8 |
The highest roaster median is 2.5 times the lowest. In Mumbai, a bag's price says more about which roaster made it than about the city.
Roast levels sit mostly in the middle and darker range. Medium-dark (41) and medium (40) lead, followed by light-medium (22), dark (22) and light (12). That puts 44% of the catalog at medium-dark or darker and 24% at light or light-medium.
Washed is the most common recorded process (36 coffees), then natural (14) and anaerobic (12). Anaerobic, carbonic maceration, double-fermented and other experimental lots together make up about 16% of the catalog; 41 coffees list no process. On brew method, espresso (60 coffees) and pour-over (57) lead. Cold brew is tagged on 28 coffees, or 19%, a share the cities comparison also noted for Mumbai. South Indian filter appears on 18, and 67 coffees are marked as working with milk. The catalog leans toward espresso and milk drinks. Light and light-medium roasts, the usual choice for pour-over, make up about a quarter of it.
How to choose a Mumbai roaster
Four questions narrow the field, and each can be answered with ICB's filters.
Walk-in or delivery
Subko, Boojee, Bombay Island, Dope and Kali have counters where beans can be tasted before buying. Drum, Roastudio, Anecdote, Tulum, Caffinary and Bean By Nation are mainly online. Seven of the 12 offer subscriptions.
Budget
Drum, Roastudio, Dancing Goat and Bombay Island have medians under Rs 550 per 250 g. Boojee, Bean By Nation and Subko sit above Rs 800.
Roast and brew
Espresso and milk drinkers have the largest pool, since medium and medium-dark coffees make up most of the catalog. Pour-over drinkers looking for lighter roasts will find a smaller set of 34 light and light-medium coffees. Bombay Island, Subko and Tulum list a filter focus.
Origin interest
For a single-estate comparison, Ratnagiri and Baarbara are each roasted by five Mumbai roasters. For less common Indian origins, Caffinary and Kali carry Koraput; for imported lots, Bean By Nation.
India's specialty market runs on direct-to-consumer delivery, so a Mumbai address matters mostly for walk-ins and delivery speed. Caffinary, for example, advertises next-day delivery within Mumbai. Outside the city, the same beans arrive by courier.